The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Not a parent myself, I’ve had a few vicarious experiences of this phase in parenting only recently, like hearing about three top graduating students at Point Grey, a public school here in Vancouver, already accepted in Ivy League universities, one of them, a girl at Harvard. Two weeks ago in the bus to the train station, Jeanine, daughter of a …

Government should be willing to forge a genuinely progressive tax system instead of adopting one that remains pro-rich, research institute Ibon said. 

By Peter Paul Patrick Lucas The Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association (Patafa) will set up a training camp in Nagasaki, Japan, at least three months before the Summer Games in Tokyo in 2020 in a bid to capture the country’s first Olympic gold medal. 

The official draw of the 2017 Asia Cup was released by Fiba on its official website on Tuesday, which will see Asian basketball giants China and the Philippines face each other at the group stage. 

Philippine Davis Cupper Francis Casey Alcantara marched into the quarterfinal round of the $15,000 Singapore Open men’s singles competition at the Kallang Tennis Center on Thursday. 

The Philippine-Turbo team proved its mastery over the Philippine-Envirotech with a convincing 13-6 win in the final to retain the title in the 2nd Pilipinas International Beach Sports Festival last Tuesday at the Baywalk Park in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. 

The Philippine Super Liga (PSL) will help raise funds for table tennis player Ian Lariba, who has acute myeloid leukemia. 

The Federation of School Sports Association (Fessap) announced last Monday the names of four more archers who will represent the country in the 2017 Summer Universiade in Chinese Taipei in August. 

The BDO Foundation and the Consuelo Foundation recently reaffirmed their partnership by signing another memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the construction of two school buildings with a total of eight classrooms for Mondragon Agro-Industrial High School in Mondragon town, Northern Samar province. 

City Savings employees from 106 branches nationwide joined in this year’s Brigada Eskwela in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) and several local government units (LGUs) from May 15 to 20, 2017.